0 An orgiastic activity involves wild, uncontrolled behaviour and feelings of great pleasure and excitement.
The more he lets off steam in orgiastic behaviour, the more violent his feelings of self-denunciation and self-contempt become afterwards.
This practice must have symbolised a certain contact with chthonian powers, which gave rise to orgiastic dreams of impregnation.
A corollary of this argument is that the orgiastic rites did not in fact occur but were false beliefs, in most cases genuinely held by the persecutors.
Therefore, no matter how attached they are to each other, it is nevertheless important to appear to be completely self-controlled and exempt from the orgiastic indulgence of their polygynist alter-egos.
However, his advocacy is of a somewhat orgiastic kind.
Second, stories of the sabbat had prurient and orgiastic elements, which caused these stories to be told and retold.
Philopator was devoted to orgiastic religions and to literature.
The "thiasi" and "orgeones" clubs were often connected with deities foreign to the area and whose rites were of an orgiastic nature.
